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http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20110902/newcastle-united-statement_2281670_2439966 No, it was a lack of being willing to spend what's considered a fair, expected and, in any way you twist and turn it, a neccesary price for much needed quality striker. A new No.9 so to speak! You thick fucking asshole stingy bitch.

It's too broad a question though, who knows? I'm not aware of anyone who hasn't criticised a lot of what Ashley has done. You could equally put it the other way round - what would Ashley have to do to make you think he was doing some things right? Buy one of the most exciting attacking midfielders in Europe? Sign a French league winner and one of the best defensive midfielders in the league? Get a promising young Italian international fullback from Inter Milan? Bounce back from a relegation, finish the season well and start the following season with some good results? Put our finances on a sounder footing? But I wouldn't ask it like that because I know it's not black and white. I'm not trying to speak up on Ashley's behalf, I'm trying to highlight that the situation at the club isn't as dire as some people think, and everything we do isn't bad or part of some evil plan to punish Geordies. Get a striker in as well, that'd at least shows he cares and does have a plan. We've had a decent window but we're relying on Shola,Lovercrap, Ba & Best. I like Best, I think he's seriously underrated by some on here, who knows with Ba atm. Shola is just Shola & Lovercrap shouldn't be anywhere near the team. I agree we should have got another striker, and that's a failure. As you said though, we've had a decent window. Personally i would have been worried who we would have sold in order to sign a striker so perhaps we're better off as it is. This is just purely speculation to what will happen in the coming years based on the assumption that Ashley trying to make NUFC more attractive to potensial buyers: GKs: Steve Harper - Think he will be gone next season. Either retiring or being release. Tim Krul - Think he'll stay on for 1 or 2 season. If he continues his current performance I can see him being sold (champ league football/ incredible offfer) Ole Soderberg - Don't know enough to tell. Robert Elliot - He's gonna be our new Harper, and potensially the new No.1 if Krul is sold. DEFs: Fabrizio Coloccini - will, unfortunately be sold after this season. Mainly because he's on high wages, secondly because he's too old for the regime. Davide Santon - stays for 2 seasons Danny Simpson - possibly being sold next season. Michael Williamson - stays James Perch - amazingly enough, I think he'll stay. Ryan Taylor - will stay until the last year of his contract, then be either sold or release (barton-style) Steven Taylor - stay James Tavernier - Don't know enough to tell. Mids: Yohan Cabaye - will be here for this entire season, then will be sold during or after the next. Danny Guthrie - will stay. Mehdi Abeid - stays. Dan Gosling - stays. Jonas Gutierrez - will be sold next summer. Sylvain Marveaux - stay for atleast 2 seasons Cheik Ismael Tiote - will be sold during or after this season. Haris Vuckic - stays Shane Ferguson - stays Forwards: Hatem Ben Arfa - will stay for another two seasons. Mainly, because (or luckily) he's been injured for a long time. Peter Lovenkrands - will run down his contract. Alan Smith - will leave after the season. Demba Ba - stay for 2 seasons. Leon Best - Will be sold during or after this season. Shola Ameobi - untouchable. Gabriel Obertan - stays. Sam Ameobi - stays. Nile Ranger - will rot in the reserves till someone takes him off our hands. If ever... Ryan Donaldson - Don't know enough to tell. honorable mentions : Xisco - will be loaned out or shipped out in a mutual consent. Forster - will leave after this season. Phil Airey - Don't know enough to tell.

Just to be clear. I hate Mike Ashley. I fucking despise him. And as my signature states, I'd gladly welcome a man-city-type-of-owner to Newcastle. Opposed to some here, I'm only concern about the quality of the squad, the depth and most importantly I want us to be entertaining and compete with the 'big guns'. I don't care about the balanced book and the accounts, there's only a few clubs in the EPR who are concerned about that. Why? Because they are either stupid, or they have richer and more ambitious guys backing them up. Last night I went to bed around 09.30 PM (that would be 08.30 PM in the UK), and I'm fucking glad I did. Ashley is not concerned about the things I am expecting, as a supporter. That is why I knew we weren't getting anyone in. Ashley has proven that he can get in the players he wants to, at his 'acceptable' price, and that's that. So I'm really not bother with the wheeling and dealing, Ashley does what he wants to, I've settle with that. I'm content with those that have been brought in, but I'm far from happy. We have been lucky with our results so far this season. In fact, we play so boring that I'm able to read books at the same time as I'm watching our games (and yes I do that). We are lucky if we survive this season, because, given a couple of key-player-injuries we have no quality replacements on the bench. In our ST positions no-one is a typical 10-15-20 goals a seasons guarantor. I think, what we are witnessing here, is just a process were Ashley is trying to make NUFC more attractive to potential buyers. Heck, even the Man City owners (located in God-knows-where part of the world) show more commitment to the club and its surroundings than Ashley. Why? Well, I'd say Mooooneeeeey.

I'm logging off, have a nice meltdown.

Crow1987 Nufc87 by nufcfans @nufcfans Ruiz has declined the offer from #nufc #deadlineday 3 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

MsiDouglas Mark Douglas Toon went in 'far too late' for Ruiz. Another top player; another 'so nearly' to add to the collection #nufc 50 seconds ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Fourth_Official Fourth Official by NUFCThreatLevel Patrick van Aanholt has joined Wigan on loan for the season from Chelsea #CFC #WAFC 8 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Zadeh7 Daniel Zadeh by nufcfans @nufcfans David Craig reporting #NUFC a lot closer than people expect to signing a striker. #interesting 5 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

rossgregory9 Ross Gregory by cwarr07 Bryan Ruiz's agent tells Gazette the £10m Twente striker to decide between Fulham and Newcastle bit.ly/ri1rAa #nufc #ffc #jptransfers 3 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,,11678_7140732,00.html Sky Sports sources understand Newcastle could make a late move to try and hijack Fulham's swoop for Bryan Ruiz. Fulham have agreed a fee with FC Twente for the Costa Rica international as Martin Jol looks to lure him to Craven Cottage However, Newcastle are now believed to have entered the race for the highly-rated 26-year-old and have made an enquiry to Twente about a possible move. Magpies boss Alan Pardew is keen to bring in a new striker before the close of the transfer window to bolster his attacking options and Ruiz is thought to be his top target. Fulham remain favourites to land Ruiz as they have been in talks with the player for the last 24 hours and they are pushing to get the deal done before the transfer window slams shut at 11pm.

Aye, everyone should know that they're only allowed to start new threads if the player in question is undesirable. The sarcatic oldtype................................................................... Everybody should know that we have thread for posting this stuff. Rumour thread or twitter thread, or what have you.

If we are bidding that much I'd rather prefer we went for Sturridge. thread. I beg you not to turn this forum into RTG SMB forum just because it's deadline day, and some wankers out there report that we've bid for 'God knows who'.

Player Prices Player prices change during the season dependent on the popularity of the player in the transfer market. Player prices do not change until the season starts. The price shown on your transfers page is a player's selling price. This selling price may be less than the player's current purchase price as a sell-on fee of 50% (rounded up to the nearest £0.1m) will be applied on any profits made on that player. For example, if you buy a player for £8.3m and when you transfer him his price is £9.0m, his selling price will be £8.6m. http://fantasy.premierleague.com/rules/

Hey, don't me. I'll call your facepalm and up the bid with a

http://www.nufcblog.com/2011/08/30/tamas-kadar-in-danger-of-newcastle-exit/

http://ssportnews.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/danger-danger-blackpool-here-comes-ranger/

Owen Hargreaves undergoes medical at Manchester City MANCHESTER CITY are set to offer Owen Hargreaves a shock Premier League lifeline. The former Manchester United midfielder is available on a free transfer after his contract with the champions expired at the end of last season. And City could snap up the man their bitter neighbours ditched for nothing — IF he proves he is over his fitness problems. Hargreaves was pictured leaving Bridgewater Hospital at midday today after undergoing a three-hour medical. The 30-year-old looked happy as he was greeted by City medical staff at the back of the building as he made his exit. Hargreaves has been hampered by knee and hamstring injuries over the last four years. But he insists he is now back to peak physical condition and attempted to prove as much by posting a string of videos on YouTube showing him being put through his paces. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3783440/Owen-Hargreaves-undergoes-medical-at-Manchester-City.html

nufcfans NUFCfans Inter Milan defender Davide Santon expected to sign 5-year deal at #NUFC later this afternoon. #NUFC #fb 1 minute ago Favorite Retweet Reply

beat me to it. bastard! nufcfans NUFCfans Jose Mourinho on Davide Santon > “He's the type of player who could become the new Maldini or Zanetti over the next few years." #NUFC #fb 5 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Ashley and Llambas know we need a Nolan in the squad. We are just switching to a Nolan that actually IS a striker.

Not for the club Lambias makes an enquiry about player, leaks interest to press... then does not more about it, fans hopes built up.. smoke screen complete. .com reporting that the deal broke down when PSV wouldn't sell without having a replacement lined up. S'pose it all comes down to who you believe. They seemed to be reluctant to negotiate from the very beginning. I also found it strange how the death of his grandmother prevented him from taking care of his future. Wasn't there some sort of qoute from Pieters at the very beginning concerning the death of a family member.. bla bla..

Not for the club Lambias makes an enquiry about player, leaks interest to press... then does not more about it, fans hopes built up.. smoke screen complete. .com reporting that the deal broke down when PSV wouldn't sell without having a replacement lined up. S'pose it all comes down to who you believe. They seemed to be reluctant to negotiate from the very beginning. I also found it strange how the death of his grandmother prevented him from taking care of his future.

SMB-alert.

Newcastle

They better give players some sort of compensation i.e. two free transfers until they manage to fix the issues. It wasn't anywhere near this bad last year.